| Term | Definition |
|---|
| to figure out collectivist meanings and belief systems for non-Westerners | What is the aim of indigenous psychology? |
| To recognise cultural values, the development of psychology but not as we know it currently | Why have indigenous psychologies? |
| Every cultural community - it is just not always articulated (Nsamenang) | Who has indigenous psychology? |
| 2000 years ago - chinese philosophers debating the good and evil of human nature | When and why did chinese psychological thinking originate? |
| Have always had a knowledge of behaviour analysis and categorisation based on Maori conceptualisations - Kaupapa Maori psychology is a new pathway based on old ways of thinking | When did Maori psychology develop? |
| Not well understood - debate about what they mean, indigenisation process is complex and uncharted, knowledge bases excluded | How is indigenous psychology view in literature? |
| conditions and processes that underlie the emergence of indigenous psychologies | What is it essential to understand? |
| Reaction to the assumption that Western psychologies can be applied elsewhere with equal relevance and validity | Why have indigenous psychologies emerged? |
| Western European and North American cultural traditions - Descartes, Skinner, Freud | Where was Western psychology born? |
| That the cultural tradition and context that gave birth to western psyc has universal application, behaviour is the same across all people and cultural context is irrelevant | What is the assumption of Western psychology? |
| To create universal understandings of humanbehaviour that could be verified and applied | What was the aim of Western psychology? |
| All cultural groups became deemed to be abnormal due to not fitting Western cultural model | What is ethnocentricism? |
| Subject matter of research, methods used, questions asked - contributing ultimately to valid and important knowledge | What did ethnocentricism govern? |
| Measuring of Maori people's heads to draw conclusions about relationship between intelligence and headsize - didn't realise that they were conducting their own culturally specific experiments e.g holding a slippery eel = trustworthy | What were the Rakau studies? |
| Individualism, self sufficiency and competition | What norms are relevant to Western psychology? |
| Indigenous development INSIDE Western psyc, assumes value in Western psyc and room for culturally specific responses, while understanding limitations of one size fits all and being aware of cultural bias and normative assumptions | Indigenising Western Psychology is... |
| Western developement INSIDE Indigenous psyc, assumes value in Indigenous psyc, understanding of indigenous contructs, universal application of certain indigenous psychological constructs (collectivism) | Westernising Indigenous Psychology is... |
| Bicultural bridge between Western and indigenous psychologies | What is the school of psyc position on maori psychology? |
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